Tri-Fire AMD Brethren

~Mike~ · 13 Aug 2014 at 13:46

tommybhoy said:
Mr and Mrs LT's new look:

whyscotty said:
Have you fitted one of these Matt?

LOLz

Uncle Petey · 13 Aug 2014 at 13:47

scotsdragon said:
WATER BLOCKS, WATER BLOCKS...... just do IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This.

I can't bear it. Check your email Matthew.

StonedPenguin · 13 Aug 2014 at 13:53

I bet that top card is cooking lol, Water is calling you Matt!

LtMatt · 13 Aug 2014 at 14:07

Top two gpu's are within 1c of each other temp wise. Noctua fans doing a sterling job. Bottom gpu is about 4-5c cooler. Max temp 85c on top gpu, fan speed on top gpu around 58%. Pretty happy with that so far.

Few scores so far running stock 290's @975/1250.

Firestrike 30,300 gpu score
Heaven 3611 (forgot to turn off HT will try again)
firestrike EXT 13,700 gpu score
sky diver 94,500 gpu score

Will post screens and results once im finished. Valley next. So far very good, no issues.

uksoldierboy · 13 Aug 2014 at 14:18

Congrats Matt,

glad it's been a smooth move for you.

Rusty0611 · 13 Aug 2014 at 14:23

Is Heaven better with HT off?

~Mike~ · 13 Aug 2014 at 14:32

LtMatt said:
Top two gpu's are within 1c of each other temp wise. Noctua fans doing a sterling job. Bottom gpu is about 4-5c cooler. Max temp 85c on top gpu, fan speed on top gpu around 58%. Pretty happy with that so far.

Few scores so far running stock 290's @975/1250.

Firestrike 30,300 gpu score
Heaven 3611 (forgot to turn off HT will try again)
firestrike EXT 13,700 gpu score
sky diver 94,500 gpu score

Will post screens and results once im finished. Valley next. So far very good, no issues.

Not bad.

LtMatt · 13 Aug 2014 at 14:36

Rusty0611 said:
Is Heaven better with HT off?

Gets you a few extra points, not a lot.

Valley 6045 HT on

Will now bench both the Unigines again and see what diff HT off makes.

Rusty0611 · 13 Aug 2014 at 14:41

I might be able to dethrone some more 290X with my 290 if so. I have 100mV from Trixx to play with as well

LtMatt · 13 Aug 2014 at 14:45

LtMatt said:
Top two gpu's are within 1c of each other temp wise. Noctua fans doing a sterling job. Bottom gpu is about 4-5c cooler. Max temp 85c on top gpu, fan speed on top gpu around 58%. Pretty happy with that so far.

Few scores so far running stock 290's @975/1250.

Firestrike 30,300 gpu score
Heaven 3611 (forgot to turn off HT will try again)
firestrike EXT 13,700 gpu score
sky diver 94,500 gpu score

Will post screens and results once im finished. Valley next. So far very good, no issues.

Rusty0611 said:
Is Heaven better with HT off?

Rusty0611 said:
I might be able to dethrone some more 290X with my 290 if so. I have 100mV from Trixx to play with as well

Here you go rusty. Expect less with a single card mind.

HT off in Valley

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290 trifire @975/1250 (under volted -0.031v)
Power usage 850-900W

Uncle Petey · 13 Aug 2014 at 14:49

What's up with 'unknown gpu (256mb)'?

LtMatt · 13 Aug 2014 at 14:49

Uncle Petey said:
What's up with 'unknown gpu (256mb)'?

Probably because I'm in Win 8 diagnostic mode. Firestrike always gives me unknown cpu.

Uncle Petey · 13 Aug 2014 at 14:51

Anything for an extra benchmark point

LtMatt · 13 Aug 2014 at 14:53

Uncle Petey said:
Anything for an extra benchmark point

Every little helps. That valley score seems pretty decent, i think.

Uncle Petey · 13 Aug 2014 at 14:56

Only a whisker off Kaap's OC'd Titans (win7), so yeah

Nice temps too.

LtMatt · 13 Aug 2014 at 15:00

Got my heaven score up to 3661 wit HT off.

Kaapstad · 13 Aug 2014 at 15:55

LtMatt said:
Every little helps. That valley score seems pretty decent, i think.

Uncle Petey said:
Only a whisker off Kaap's OC'd Titans (win7), so yeah

Nice temps too.

Avoid Valley @1080p with three cards as you are massively CPU bottlenecked. If the CPU was not a bottleneck you would score about 9000. All you do running 3 cards on Valley is thrash them and CPU for negative gain.

If you want to use 3 cards on valley go for higher resolutions to remove the bottleneck.

LtMatt · 13 Aug 2014 at 15:56

Kaapstad said:
Avoid Valley @1080p with three cards as you are massively CPU bottlenecked. If the CPU was not a bottleneck you would score about 9000. All you do running 3 cards on Valley is thrash them and CPU for negative gain.

If you want to use 3 cards on valley go for higher resolutions to remove the bottleneck.

Thanks Kaap will bear that in mind. I'm seeing quite a lot of bottlenecking in everything at 1080P tbh.

Kaapstad · 13 Aug 2014 at 16:01

LtMatt said:
Thanks Kaap will bear that in mind. I'm seeing quite a lot of bottlenecking in everything at 1080P tbh.

Work on max settings not max fps with 3 cards, it will give smother gameplay and you won't have to overclock the CPU too high.

Captain · 13 Aug 2014 at 16:04

LtMatt said:
Thanks Kaap will bear that in mind. I'm seeing quite a lot of bottlenecking in everything at 1080P tbh.

Invest in 4K

what I'll be using with my 3 290's